How It Works
To be a freelance writer, you definitely need to know how to write content for the web. This
includes knowing how to make web content search engine friendly, how to write non sales and
sales types of product and how to write in the tone that’s expected online. You will likely need
some training, but there are outstanding groups to help you.

Potential Income
How much money can you make writing as a freelance web writer? This can vary considerably,
too. At first, making $1 per 100 words is a good route to take, but don’t let that stop you. Some
are making $1 per word, with the average being the 500 word article. That is a sizable profit, but
you do need training to get to that point.

More Information
For those ready to make this type of living from home, a good place to start is with other writers.
A number of forums are available online to help you to learn the markets available to beginners.
To find jobs in freelance writing, there are various resources available online. Some companies
have full bidding websites where you can pick up jobs others are looking to fill.
As a freelance writer, you do need to know how to sell online. You will need to invest some time
in learning the ins and outs of the business. This includes learning skills like search engine
optimization and writing content for websites. You also will need to be able to sell yourself as a
professional in the industry. That is never an easy job to do but it can be one of the best ways to
get your foot in the door.

High paying jobs are rarely available right off the bat, but many individuals can start to earn
money online right away. Be careful to avoid scams which raman amplifier run widely online for freelance
writers. Also, be sure you have a reliable Internet connection and word processing software
available online to help you to make your freelance writing business online a true success right
from the start.

My notes on some of the trends and what they may mean to you. how you can use the trends to define your marketing for 2009.

#1 Recession Marketing : expect to see alot of offers that “save you money”. What offers will you have that are geared toward “saving the customer money” in this recession.

#2 Internet Marketing-palooza - Expect a boon in Internet Marketing from many small businesses taking the Internet seriously in 2009. This would be a great time to approach your local businesses and present the cost savings of having a website.

#5 Blogging - Continued growth in 2009, more small businesses enter the market see #2 above.

#7: Mobile Marketing – Tech advances with phones are opening up an entirely new area of marketing.

#12: Back-to-Basics Marketing
Less smoke and mirrors, real problems with real solutions. Present a clear message to your customers in 2009 and reap the rewards.

#19: There’s No Place Like Home
With unemployment growing, home-based businesses and home based internet marketing busineses will surge. Are you ready to help these new busineses get started on the right foot?

You can read the full article at http://www.startupnation.com/articles/9298/1/internet-marketing-trends.htm

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Does the idea of turning your writing hobby into an income-generating business get you excited? Has your writing-related income reached a plateau and you’re looking for ways to net more zeroes in front of the decimal point when you tally up your annual income? If you answered, “You bet!” then it’s time to start running your writing as a business, not a hobby. The IRS http://www.irs.gov/ lists 10 factors to distinguish between a business and a hobby. Among those factors is this: “Whether you change your methods of operation in an attempt to improve profitability.” Following these 10 steps can improve the profitability of your writing.

1. “People don’t plan to fail, they fail to plan” holds true for small businesses, including writing. A plan is a roadmap to profitability. The success rate of businesses that do write business plans is roughly 80%. Writing a plan forces one to think of opportunities and obstacles, strategies and markets. Dig into How to Really Create a Successful Business Plan by David E. Gumpert and Instant Business Plan by Gustav Berle and Paul Kirschner. Sites with business plan recommendations and examples include http://www.office.com/ and http://www.sba.gov/

2. Note the advice of authors who run successful businesses. Books to check out include $ix Figure Freelancing (http://tinyurl.com/a2y4j) by Kelly James-Enger, The Well-fed Writer (http://tinyurl.com/8xzfr) by Peter Bowerman, Writing for Quick Cash (http://tinyurl.com/73fgr) by Loriann Hoff Oberlin, The Renegade Writer (http://tinyurl.com/bwsef) by Linda Formichelli and How to Become a Fulltime Freelance Writer (http://tinyurl.com/94y2k) by Michael A. Banks.

3. Glean inspiration, information and winning tactics from books written for entrepreneurs – Six-Week Start-Up (http://tinyurl.com/83oq7) by Rhonda Abrams, Guerilla Marketing (http://tinyurl.com/ddr2d) by Jay Conrad Levinson and You Can’t Teach a Kid to Ride a Bicycle at a Seminar: The Sandler Sales Institute’s 7-Step System for Successful Selling (http://tinyurl.com/8zb7o) by David H. Sandler. Look into The Home-Based Business Kit: From Hobby to Profit (http://tinyurl.com/7eskv) by Diana Brodman Summers. Visit your state’s official website to get the proper forms for starting a business.

4. Negotiate (or have an agent or attorney negotiate) rights advantageous to you while keeping you in good standing with reputable editors and publishers. It’s in the publisher’s interest to obtain as many rights as possible, and it’s in your interest to keep as many rights to your work as possible. According to Writer’s Market, first serial, foreign language, foreign English language, audio, and electronic rights are negotiable. Every right you retain is a product you’re entitled to sell. Find info about contracts at The Authors Guild (http://www.authorsguild.org) and The National Writers Union (http://www.nwu.org). Get basic copyright information at (http://www.copyright.gov).

5. “Many times we love to do something, but that doesn’t mean we love the process we have to go through to enable us to do that thing and make money,” says a career coach. Increasing net earnings from writing requires scribes to engage in non-writing activities. Hone skills to market, advertise and sell your writing. Develop the discipline to track income and expenses. Demand a good day’s work of yourself.

6. Sell more to your current clientele. Editors who bought your writing before are likely to buy from you again. They know they can count on you to provide interesting, informative material in a timely, professional manner. Every article I’ve sold this year has been to editors who’ve been buying my work for years. Hmmm… it’s time for me to follow L. Peat O’Neil’s advice in Travel Writing (http://tinyurl.com/9dcgz).

7. “Few writers start at the top,” O’ Neil said. “Find your own level, work in it, then work up out of it… start with your local publications.” Build credibility and a clip file of your published works. Then “aim higher as you sharpen your writing skills and get to know what various editors want.” You’ll earn higher fees from higher-level markets.

8. “Sell solutions, not products or services!” Ray Potter says. Potter is a volunteer counselor at SCORE (http://www.score.org), an affiliate of the Small Business Administration (http://www.sba.gov). First identify the customer’s need or problem. Second, identify a product or service that makes the problem go away. Third, create a business that zaps the problem the way the customer wants it zapped. Identify publishers’ needs by studying their websites and entries in reference books. American publishers are listed in Writer’s Market (http://tinyurl.com/dxc83), British publishers in Writers’ and Artists’ Yearbook (http://tinyurl.com/7gx85), and Down Under’s in The Australian Writer’s Marketplace (http://tinyurl.com/8c646).

9. Identify other organizations’ needs and problems by reading their materials or noticing a lack of written materials. Click http://www.elance.com where businesses and individuals post requests for academic papers, college admissions documents, copywriting, creative writing, editing and proofreading, grant writing, press releases, articles, speeches and more. Visit http://www.writerswrite.com/buscomm for business communications resources.

10. Create an income stream. Rudy Aukshun proposed a biweekly opinion column written from his senior citizen perspective. The local newspaper editor OK’d the idea. Marie Heil, an expert on guns, writes regularly for three special interest magazines. Her reputation earns her plum assignments and speaking engagements. Trade and niche publications prefer relying on regular contributors rather than gambling on writers unknown to them.

Dun & Bradstreet cite “Mistaking a business for a hobby,” as one of the most common contributing reasons for the 70% to 80% failure rate of small business start-ups. Operate your writing activities as a business and you’ll defy those odds. Writers who are serious about getting paid treat their beloved avocation as a vocation.

Are you thinking about writing a book? Do you have an idea for an article?
If you have thought about it, write the idea or piece of information down now, so you will have it when you need it. Sitting in front of a blank computer screen, is actually not the time to think about what your subject should be. Make that decision before you begin the physical act of writing.

Keep track of your book and article ideas by writing them down. It is an essential way to ensure that you do not forget important points you want to cover. In addition, when it comes time to sit down and start writing, you will have a file of one-liners and paragraphs of ideas for inspiration and guidance.

You may hear it called a tickler file. It may be a physical notebook, a spreadsheet, or just a windows notepad file. In my case the idea is scribbled down on whatever is handy, and then transferred to a spreadsheet. For some reason I plug the date in when I create the entry, not sure what purpose that serves, other than beating myself up for not acting on an idea I had three months ago. (side note to self: delete date column).

Do you remember going to a class, the teacher, with a sly grin, telling you to open up your notebook and write 500 words on what you thought or how you felt about blah, blah, blah. For the majority of us, this was painfully difficult. I used to be a firm believer that there was a reason teacher and torture both started with a “T”.
You had no idea what blah was. Had never thought about blah and certainly had no intentions to ever write anything about blah.

Can you imagine a writer, a professional, someone that makes their living writing and does it all the time, sitting down to a blank page and saying, , “OK, now what kind of article, book, essay, story am I going to write about…”. For a rare few, Isaac Asimov is the only one I can think of, the tickler file may exist in their head, they toss the ideas around, reshaping, and forming, and when the idea is ready, then they do a brain dump to the page and out pops an article. For the rest of us, the real world, we need a physical tickler file as a starting point and a point of reference.

Don’t waste one second looking at a blank page. If you don’t already know what to write about, look through your tickler file. If you don’t have a tickler file, then work on that. While it will definitely build over time, there is no reason you can’t write a page of ideas, one-liners, even abstract off the wall stuff in one sitting to get your tickler file started. Keep adding to it, then when you want to write an article check that file and start writing. Never stare at another blank page again.

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